Jo lives in a small town in southern Japan. She lives with her two children and Japanese husband and is learning more everyday about the world of Japanese agriculture and culture.

Monday, August 08, 2011

Blueberry Picking

I am weeks behind on my posts... I think I'll try to get some more up in the next few days, but no promises! Mum arrived last week, the kids are on holidays and I am not really on holiday.... in other words the usual routines are all off kilter and although we have been doing lots of things I just don't seem to have the same time slots to write posts.
Anyway... one of our latest activities involved picking little blue round things - aka blueberries. Unfortunately they are not blueberries that we have grown, but amazingly big, delicious ones that someone else has planted and that we went and picked a couple of kilograms of. They weren't exactly cheap, but with the "jam" blueberries thrown in we came away with a few extra kgs. The kids seemed to have fun, but I have decided that if I could only take one child to a "pick your own" fruit place it would have to be my daughter. She has the ability to stuff a kg or so down her throat while picking whereas my son sampled a tiny bite out of one of them and said - that's yummy Mum, but where can I dispose of the rest of it? I sometimes wonder how they turned out so differently when I think I have raised them in basically the same way.....
Mum probably picked the most of all of us - but after looking at the photos and comments about how similar she looked to her father in her trendy green cap we went shopping for a new hat today... I must say it is a a big improvement!